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I have been searching for ways to modify the Xfce Start menu.

The menu options use the app name, which provides little or no clue to the app's purpose. Except to those people who already know, names such as Transmission, Brasero, Catfish, Exaile, etc. provide no immediate help about purpose. I prefer a menu that lists the description and the app name in parentheses much like KDE3 supported.

As such information is contained in *.desktop xml files, I presume then that Xfce does not support descriptions or configuring for that layout simply escapes me.

I recall testing LXDE several months ago and LXDE also did not support descriptions, although perhaps that has changed since then.

Perhaps the problem is the *.desktop files lack Description entries. I'm still trying to learn how this all works.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

If you're having trouble with locating an application in the menu, you can always use the xfce4-appfinder tool.

Locating was not my point. I want to edit the menu to be description oriented and not name oriented. Is that possible?

No.

Look in /usr/share/applications where you will find the desktop configuration files. You can open these with mousepad and edit the name. The method by which the menu is created is the same as in Gnome, which is documented at
http://library.gnome.org/admin/system-a ... -1.html.en